The end of another year

Where does the time go? I can't help but remember something my dad told me once. "The older you get the faster time goes". Boy was he right. There is no truer statement than that. I'll be 43 next month. I have to tell ya that it bothers me. I mean what the fuck... 43. Where has all the time gone? It's just gone. It's not something I can dwell on as it makes my head spin. It seems like just yesterday I was joining the local volunteer fire department at the age of 14 to become a junior firefighter in their new program. After twenty one years of being a regular working Joe and giving to my community by risking my life without thought or concern I moved across country. And here I am...

Had it not been for my girlfriend I would have never began playing Eve. She played the game when I met her in 2006. I used to laugh and make fun of it. "What the fuck, a spaceship game online"?
I'm not a gamer. Atari is what we had growing up. Pacman and Asteroids were the popular arcade games that we would play at the bowling alley just over the hill from home. I didn't game in my later teens. We were outside kids as most were back in the 70's and 80's. We got into trouble for not being home. My, how the world has changed.

After a few months of ignoring what it was she was doing in this game called Eve I decided to give it a try. Straight in to a player owned corp running missions and learning about Eve and suddenly I was hooked. That all grew old very fast. Enter Harrigan Vonstudly. I created this character solely for PvP and I haven't looked back.

I'm a grumpy old bastard. Kind of like Walt played by Clint Eastwood in the movie Gran Torrino. I have that rough,blast you in the face, no faggotry tolerated kind of mentality. I'm old school. I have honor, am truthful, and patriotic. I believe if something is supposed to be a certain way then do it that way. Professional and to the exact detail in which it is required and/or expected.
I get on rants sometimes. I will slap a bunch of adjectives together in one long drawn out sentence of a rant. My corpies laugh. Sometimes they quote me and call it a Harri-ism. This is who I am.

I started a blog about Eve some time back. I didn't keep current with it and coupled with no one reading it I just deleted the blog and account. As time went on I was involved in thing in the game that were too funny to not be written about. That's why I started this blog and have kept fairly active with it. Some of the stuff in the archives surrounding [PRACO] is just hilarious. You just can't make that stuff up.

Going in to 2011 I want to keep on with the blogging. I'd like to get more familiar with the Tweetfleet on Twitter and how to use the damn thing. Give us old guys a break, will ya?
I realize I need to cut down on some of my anger. I tend to snap on people. Especially care bears. I know not all of them are bad. It's the really nasty little beady eyed shnitty little... there I go again. The rage starts to build inside and I start to go off. It's how I'm wired. I thrive in high stress difficult environments and without stress I don't know what to do.

Anyhow, I want to try and keep a more well rounded blog with informative articles. At least talk about things that may spark a discussion. There's always going to be those stories of fail, laughter, and pure basking in the glow of others' misfortune. I can't completely give up meanness. I am Mean Harri, after all.

May the new year find all of you well, prosperous, and healthy. Happy New Year everyone. Here's to more years of fun, laughter, and being a community with a commonality. To Eve-online. To you. Here here. Salute'

Incursion: What does it mean to you?

The release of the new expansion known as Incursion is fast approaching. There is much hoopla being made about it. Specifically pertaining to the character creation and ambulation (walking in stations).
This is the area that I find myself wondering about.

One of the biggest arguments or replies to the question, why?, that I have seen is, "because it is CCP's goal to provide a total experience rather than just being a portrait". I'm paraphrasing of course.

I have to say that that answer is BULLSHIT!!

Look here. Admittedly I may not be the longest player of the game, nor even all that "vetted" considering I started playing the game in August of 2008. But I read. I read a lot about the game. I see things players say and have said all over the place. And as you all know Eve is well known for its epic large scale fleet battle. Huge battles of massive proportion. When I read, how in days gone by, about giant battles taking place with almost no lag at all and compare those reflections to the current state of the game as told by many-a-player in post after post, complaint after complaint, I have to wonder where ambulation is going to lead the lag monster from hell.

Eve is a player versus player spaceship fighting game first and foremost. Yes there are other forms of PvP such as market PvP, etc...
And while ambulation may seem like a really cool idea, it's carebear at it's finest. Who is going to enjoy walking around a station, sitting in a bar getting their internet jollies off over some internet created illusion of a female? Carebears are.
People who play the game to have fights in space, be it one on one, small gang, or epic large fleet fights aren't going to give a rat's ass about walking in a station. Carebears who are war dec'd will flaunt their "I jizzed in my pants" characters running around a station chasing some blonde Gallente chick trying to score a piece of internet ass while those who are playing the game as created wait outside for a battle that won't ever come. And to this problem I ask: Will we be able to dock and slit the throats of the pussies who dare hide from our sweet sweet lasers?

Oh sure, it may be cool at first. But it's going to get old. And what will all this extra load that is going to be created on the server do to our game that is riddled with "soul crushing lag"? I believe it will add to it.
I should have prefaced this with saying that I personally do not engage in the large 0.0 fleet fights that endure such poor performance caused by lag. But that doesn't mean I don't know about it. It's part of the game that I play and write about in this here blog.

Why do you care of it doesn't effect you Harri?
Because it could thanks to ambulation. That's speculative, I know. Also, I am a firm believer in if you're going to do something or have something do it right or get the fuck out of the way and don't do it at all. There are a myriad of problems that plague the game. Problems that are left to go unsolved leaving one to shake their head at the hypocrisy.
Specifically, the parts in the previous link pertaining to the striving for excellence.

While I'm not the first one, by a wide margin, to write about such things I am certainly entitled to have an opinion. And I still ask why?

How many players have left because of the broken promises? How many have left because the game they love to play has gotten to a point on unplayable for them? Sure, it's just a game. Or is it? Eve is like no other game. It is heavily time consuming and not free to play. It is something people chose to invest in. While it may be CCP's game to do with as they want it is also considerably beneficial to sometimes listen to those who have a view of the situation from a different angle. And with ambulation on our heels I can only say that CCP is not listening to the player base. They are listening to the sound in their head with the hopes that it jingles like a cash register. Cha-ching...

I hope you are right CCP. I don't think you are. Time will tell.

Merry Christmas to All and to All a YarrYear

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It's that time of year again. Families are gathering and children's heads are spinning in the wonderment of what Saint Nicolas will be leaving them under the Christmas tree. I like to tell the little kiddies that "you're getting nothing"! All your stuff are belong to me. Yarrrr!!

I often refer to this season as Shitmas. I hate Christmas. People bull rushing the stores tearing sale items from the grasps of little old ladies. Deaths and injuries due to trampling on-rushes by selfish greedy bastards trying to save a few bucks. To you early bird, up at o'dark-thirty shoppers of Black Friday I say, fuck you all.

I was reminded of the shame of humanity today. Seeing that over turned suv laying on its roof in the middle of the highway left me shaking my head in disgust. Probably in a hurry to get to grandmas house for the holidays and made a mistake. Flight for life was called. Now the family will be spending the holidays at the critical care unit. Or worse... The funeral home. All to save but a few seconds.

I may come off as an asshole. Maybe I am one. But remember, slow down, take it easy, and for God's sake shop online. I can't let the season come and go without saying Merry Christmas (it is Christmas you politically correct fucks) and Happy New Year. We want you around next year to lootz your wrecks.

[OOC] Food storage ruined my pooridge

It's been a rough year here in the United States. Not as bad as some other countries but rough non the less. People are losing their homes and every penny of their life savings. Jobs are on the decline and it's getting ugly. Prices of commodities are up and it's getting to be a nightmare. So I took my happy ass to the internet to research freeze dried food storage so as to get some kind of a supply started should the shit really hit the fan.

What does this have to do with Eve? I'll tell you pod pilot. THIS!!
I missed this because while I was reading away till my heart's content I missed out on what could possibly be a once in a lifetime kill. God damn,piss,shit,and vinegar.

Without saying, congratulations PHEW. A job well done. A little back story can be had here.

You hear that?

The following video contains a picture. If you look at it, in my opinion, it looks as though the image of the mosquito has a twat. A big flappy lipped pile of chipped ham twat-waffleness.
That leads me to this amusing little story.

Just five days after our corp joining PHEW there was a killing of a Rorqual. The guys pinned the ship outside of a POS and smashed it. Don't you just love that fit? Needless to say, the owners of the one time intact hull are not too pleased. As you can see by their stats I don't think there's too much to be concerned about. But you never know. As a matter of fact, you just may be stalked in local like a helpless little bunny rabbit being stalked by a big bad coyote. Day in and day out, week after week, stalked. And so stealthy that you can never see them. To their credit the little buzzing blood suckers did attempt to gank one of our Navy Domi's but the long cloaking delay resulted in them being unable to target the Navy Domi and one of them died horribly as the other two warped off in a wisp of fail. 

But wait! There's more...

If you call in the next ten minutes you too can have your very own intel on us. The tactic is about as effective as the NPC corp douche-nozzle that has never left The Scope since his character creation in 2005. He yields the "consider yourself blocked" feature as a be all to end all weapon of mass destruction. 

Here in this pests bio you will see information about our alliance. I could be wrong here but I believe it is meant to be a signal to us. A signal to let us know just how mighty and all knowing these little pests are. To let us know of the might that is about to be unleashed upon us at any given moment. If they uncloak...

 Oh the information you have little mosquito. It is so unique and soul crushing. What ever shall we do? 

Please show mercy on us oh mighty Mosquitoz warriors. Please do not scare us any more with your cloakiness. It is so unnerving. Just knowing that you are sitting there, cloaked, ready to pounce on us at any given second and wipe us off the face of the universe. Oh the pressure. It is more than one care bear. 

We love us some Purple

Come gather 'round and let Harri tell you a story. A story of fail.

That Nyx loss by the alliance happened not to Noir. the mercs contracted against Chains of Chaos. Nope. It was lost to The Purple Helmeted Warriors. And us guys in Original Sin realized this loss just as we were throwing up our hands at the fail that we just experienced on comms pertaining to the Noir. situation. As it so happens our leader, Unca Solty, knows some of the leadership of PHEW from back in the day. I must say for the record that O-Sin had absolutely nothing to do with that Nyx kill. Shame really, but we didn't. However, it did get our attention resulting in communications being opened and ultimately ending with our corp joining PHEW. The boys in CoC may not believe that our corp had nothing to do with that Nyx loss, but that's their problem. The winds of change have come and we are enjoying us some purple.